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Escaping an orphanage run by a malicious political stooge and taking refuge in Point-Noire, Moses lives among a band of Congolese Merry Men and the Zairian prostitutes but as injustice descends Moses is pushed over the edge.

For inseparable twins, Aditi and Arjun music is everything, they are part of a band and have a music video that has gone viral but it’s not all down to their talent, they have a ghostwriter, a brother no one can see.

After trying to warn young Mary Yellan to stay away from the ruined and forbidding, instead she persists on her Mother’s dying request that she joins her frightened aunt and hulking uncle at Jamaica Inn.

When a group of scientist begin to suspect a planet has been artificially altered they investigate further but come up empty handed that is until Dorothy Yoshida a fellow scientist and telepath arrives to help uncover the mystery.

Precious Ramotswe sets up a business to help people with problems in their lives and finds herself with clients immediately but when a case of a missing eleven year old boy tugs at her heart she finds herself in danger.

Ten years Jacko Vance spent behind bars planning the perfect escape in order to wreak revenge on those who put him away. That day has come and Clinical psychologist Tony Hill and police detective Carol Jordan better watch their backs.

Recently fired from his job and nagged by his wife Jim decides to show he is in control and sets a fire killing himself and leaving his wife and unborn child homeless, but she is taken in by some nuns and given a job.

Jay McInerney became a literary sensation with the publication of Bright lights, Big city. The novel follows the life of a man who lives in Manhattan as if he owns it, through clubs, parties and fasion shows.

This is the third book in the series by Sonia Mehta looking at the lives of notable Indians. This book concentrates on the life of Rani Lakshmibai, a notable figure in the 1857 mutiny against the British.

With the murder of Lady Bessingham, Adolphus Hatton and his morgue assistant Albert Roumande are called in to assist Scotland Yard’s infamous Inspector Adams on a case that could change the face of society and religon irrevocably.

Take a look through some of the best album covers of all time, from pop to folk and everything in between, this wonderful visual record of art in the music industry is an essential read for music lovers around the world.

In the house of Helios, God of the Sun and the mightiest of the Titans a daughter, Circe is born. But she is strange, not powerful like her father or alluring like her mother, now she has to discover her power.

On her last day of working as a teacher at a middle school Yuko Moriguchi has one more lecture to teach which revolves around the death of her four year old daughter and the students that killed her. Now no one at the school is safe!

Nimmi is starting Grade 6 and while she was really excited, she soon finds that Slimy Sumit will be riding the bus with her, and her best friend has turned into a zombie Barbie. Suddenly things aren’t looking so great.

Take a look through some of the best album covers of all time, from pop to folk and everything in between, this wonderful visual record of art in the music industry is an essential read for music lovers around the world.

This is a great novel and aptly named. You won’t fail to get drawn into the schoolyard gossip, lies and dramas at Pirriwee Public School. This is the first Liane Moriarty novel I have read but it won’t be the last.

Lale was lucky enough to get the job of tattooing identity numbers onto his fellow prisoners, a job that gave him some privileges which he used to help others survive and gave him the chance to come out the other side with dignity and integrity intact.

Sadie Sparrow stumbles upon an abandoned house while on enforced leave from her job in the Metropolitan Police but it’s not a relaxing break when she discovers the mystery of the missing child that once lived in the house.

A review of Natasha Mostert’s award winning novel Season of the Witch with a dose of alchemy, some mysticism and a murder all bound together in a breathtaking thriller, taking you through the minds of others.

This beautifully written and exciting memoir takes the reader on a journey through Southern India, From Bombay to the hippy beaches of Goa and on to the tropical tip of India, travelling by boat and bus, staying in fishermans huts and no-star hotels.

Read about some of the stories from the Quran, God breathing life into the first man and woman, the gift of free will, the ninety-nine names of God, the blessed she-camel, the mighty King Sulaiman and much, much more.

Two young women are found drowned in their own blood, victims of a stalker killer who roams the streets in the depths of winter. The police are running out of options and there is only one man who can help.

Harry Hole promised he was out of the force after the last case he worked almost took everything from him, but when Tinder girls start turning up dead harry notices a resemblance to the case that he couldn’t solve.

The whales of Bathsheba’s pod live for the hunt, fighting in the war against the world of men. When they attack a ship bobbing on the surface of the Abyss, they expect to find easy prey. Instead, they find the trail of a myth and perhaps the devil himself.

Through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain’s King George III the path to independence is chronicled from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe.

Nick Offerman combines both serious history with light-hearted humour as he focuses on the lives of those who inspired him, he describes twenty-one heroic figures and why they inspire in him such great meaning.

The story of Tucker, a young veteran who returns from war to work for a bootlegger. Tucker falls in love and starts a family but when they are threatened he is pushed into violence, and that changes everything.

This début novel by Temi Oh explores the relationships of six teenagers and four experienced astronauts on their 23-year journey to the planet Terra-Two. When something goes wrong they only have each other to rely on.

It’s 1945 and London is still reeling from the Blitz, 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are seemingly abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth who they think may be a criminal.

There’s There is Tommy’s Orange’s debut novel, a pacey multi-generational novel that tells the story of twelve individual native Americans who live in Oakland, California. A heartbreaking tale of identity struggles.

When a body is found, Kya Clarke, the marsh-girl, is suspect number one. However, she’s not as wild as she seems. Despite her difficult and violent past, we soon see another side to her as her life is revealed in a coming-of-age tale.

Dakota thought nothing could be as bad as losing her mother, unfortunately she finds out how wrong she can be when her father suddenly dies, but with these tragedies comes a sibling she never knew she had.

Sage Singer’s physical scars cause her to separate herself from building meaningful relationships, but as she gets close to Josef Weber, an old man that visits the bakery she’s confronted with a difficult decision.

Set in the late 1800’s London while Jack the Ripper is at his prime, another killer skulks in his shadow “The Torso Killer” Dr. Bond who visits the opium dens by night may have seen this much more sinister killer.

When a banyan saves an Air Force Loadmaster after being shot out of the sky, an artist inherits a creativity for hundreds of years of photographic portraits. In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance.

A laugh out-loud collection from the late-great Sir Terry Pratchett which offers an insight into the creation of Discworld and the brilliant man behind the series. Made up of newspaper clippings, speeches and other information this book offers a fascinating window into Pratchett’s world.

In a London townhouse, Sir Christopher Clarke lies murdered, his safe rifled just hours after changing his will. Fraud is just one of the complications that will make this case difficult, but who is the killer?

Seventeen year old James Earl Williams is looking forward to a new life away from gang riddled neighbourhoods and fast paced crime but supernatural forces are searching for something that he unknowingly has.